Box-fastener.



P. SOLUM.

BOX FASTBNER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.16, 1912.

1,055,826, Patented Mar. 11, 1913.

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BOX FASTENEE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 16, 1912.

Patented Mar. 11, 1913.

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PAUL SOLUM, OF MCKEE, OREGON.

BOX-FASTENER.

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Application filed September 16, 1912.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 11, 1913.

Serial No. 720,628.

To all w/wm it may concern:

Be it known that 1, PAUL SOLUM, a cit-izen of the United States,residing at McKee, in the county of Marion and State of Oregon, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Box-Fasteners, of whichthe following is a specification, reference being had therein to theaccompanying drawing.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a mail tube havingimproved locking means. i 7

Another object of the invention is to provide a mailing tube having thelocking means secret and concealed by false representations of riveting.

With the above and other objects in view, as will be hereinafterapparent the invention consists in general of certain novelconstructions, combinations, and arrangements of parts, as will behereinafter fully described, illustrated and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings like characters of reference indicate likeparts in the several views, and Figure 1 isa side elevation of theimproved tube partly broken away and showing the locking means in lockedposition. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the locking means in unlockedposition. 3 is a detail transverse section on the line 33, Fig. 2. Fig.4- is a detail of the locking bar and adjacent parts removed from thecasing. Fig. 5 is an end view of the tube. Fig. 6 is a view similar toFig. 5 but showing the tube open. Fig. 7 is a detail section of one endof the tube. Fig. 8 is a detail showing a certain rivet used as a headfor the locking bar.

In carrying out the objects of this invention there is provided a boxconsisting of two semi-cylindrical halves 10 and 11 which are hingedtogether as at 12 along one edge. Each of these halves comprises aninner portion 13 and an outer portion 14 making a double wall structurethroughout the entire box. Around each end of the box there is provideda row of riveting 16 and along the edges are similar rows of riveting16, the riveting simulating fastening means. Slidably mounted betweenthe walls of one section adjacent its free edge is a bar 17 which hasprojecting therefrom arms 18 having angular extensions 19 at their ends.These arms and angular extensions lie between the walls of the othersection when the box is closed and this other section carries pins 20 sopositioned that when the bar 17 is moved into one position theextensions 19 will engage the pins and hold the sections locked, asshown in Fig. 1, while when the bar is moved in the opposite directionthe extensions will be free from the pins, as shown in Fig. 2. On thisbar. 17 is further provided a lug 21 which is on the side of the baropposite one of the arms 18. Each of the halves is slotted as at 22 andthrough these slots pass pins 23 having heads simulating riveting. Tooifset the unusual position of these rivets out of the line of rivetingsimilarly positioned rivets 24: are provided adjacent the opposite endof each section of the box so that the riveting appears symmetrical.

Between the walls of each section is provided a pin 25 and around two ofthe rivets in the rows 16 are Secured springs 26 which pass around thesepins and also around the rivets 23, the springs normally urging therivets or pins 23 inward. The position of these rivets 23 is such thatwhen the bar 17 is in the position indicated in Fig. 1, one of the pins23 will lie behind one of the arms 18 while the remaining pin liesbehind the lug 21, thus preventing the box from being accidentallyunlocked.

The end of the box is provided with a suit-able slot through which thebar 17 extends and on this outwardly extending end is provided thesemblance of a rivet as indioated at 27 thus constituting the head ofthe bar.

In operation when it is desired to open the box the same is grasped inone hand and the rivets or pins 23 moved apart to the position shown inFig. 2. The other hand is then used to pull out upon the bar 17, thefingers grasping the head 27. When the bar has been pulled out asindicated in Fig. 2 the box will readily swing open for the introductionof a paper roll, as shown at 28, the roll being shown dotted prior toplacing it in the box, and in full lines when in position.

It will, of course, be obvious that the arms 18 will be slightly curvedto fit properly between the inner and outer walls, this curvature beingshown in Fig. 6.

There has thus been provided a simple and eflicient device of the kinddescribed, and for the purpose specified,

Having thus described the invention,w'hat is claimed as new, is

1. In a receptacle of the class described, a pair of semi-cylindricalsections provided with rows of simulated rivets, hinges c0nnecting oneedge of one section to a similar edge of the other section, a lockingbar slidably mounted on one of said sections and provided with armshaving angularly disposed ends adapted to extend within the othersection when the box is closed, pins carried by the last-mentionedsection and adapted to be engaged by said ends, a head on said barsimulating a rivet, pins slidably mounted in said sections, a lug onsaid bar, one of said arms, said lug, and slidable pins being arrangedto permit the pins engaging behind the arm and lug when the box islocked, and springs normally urging the last-mentioned pins into lockingposition.

2. In a device of the kind described, a air of sections ofsemi-cylindrical form each comprising an inner wall and an outer wall,hinges connecting the longitudinal edge of one section with a similarlongitudinal edge of the other section, a locking bar slidably mountedbetween the walls of one section and projecting through one end of saidsection, arms extending from said locking bar and arranged to liebetween the walls of the other section when the box is closed, endsextending at right angles from the extremities of said arms, keeper pinsextending across the space between the inner and outer walls of thelast-mentioned section and arranged to be engaged by said ends to lockthe box, other pins mounted in said sections and arranged to slide atright angles to the movement of the bar, a lu on said bar opposite oneof said arms, the lastmentioned pins being adapted to engage behind saidarm and lug when the box is locked, springs normally urging the lastmentioned pins into engaging position, and heads on the last-mentionedpins and the end of the bar simulating rivets.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aiiix my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

AUL SOLUM. \Vitnesses C. S. REISTAT, E. A. OLsoN.

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